LONDON: Referees will explain VAR decisions to stadium crowds and television audiences in a 12-month trial starting at next month's FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco, football's law-making body said on Wednesday .
The players' union FIFPRO had lobbied for such a trial in the English Premier League, France's Ligue 1 and Major League Soccer in the United States. FIFA has invested heavily in VAR technology since it was introduced at the 2018 World Cup in Russia but controversy remains. English Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham, who chaired the meeting, told reporters conversations between the referee and the VAR official would remain private."There will be a trial where in FIFA tournaments over the next 12 months there is the ability for the referee, after a VAR decision has been made, to announce to the stadium and the broadcast audience what has happened and to clarify that decision," he said.